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Re: st: Question on interpretation of survey data: from the mean to the total
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Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Question on interpretation of survey data: from the mean to the total
Date
Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:53:39 -0400
Laurie,
After -summarize cars- type -return list- for additional statistics.
The total number of cars is in r(sum).
Friedrich
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Laurie Molina <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my dataset each observation is a household and the weights are for
> households.
> In the survey there is a question about the number of cars of the household.
> So i am interested in the average number of cars of the HH.
> An also i am interested in the total number of cars owned by HH.
>
> To my understand it is ok to calculate the average number of cars of
> the HH, even with
> summarize cars[weight=factor].
>
> But if i get that mean, and i multiply it by the (expanded) number of
> observations (HH), is it ok to say that it is the total number of cars
> of the HH in the survey?
>
> Thank you very much again!
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Steve Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> --
>>
>> In advance I would say that you should create a data set in which
>> each observation is a HH and the weight is an appropriate HH weight.
>> However to advise you further with some assurance, we would need to
>> know how the weights were computed-was there post-stratification or
>> "raking", for example and details about the design (clusters, stages
>> is too vague). including the -svyset- statement. Your current
>> approach is almost certainly wrong, because the denominator for -svy:
>> mean- will be individuals, not HH; it will be biased, because larger
>> HH will contribute more observations.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Steven J. Samuels
>> [email protected]
>> 18 Cantine's Island
>> Saugerties NY 12477
>> USA
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Laurie Molina <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> I have a question on the interpretation of survey data.
>>> There is a survey in which the analysis units are the households and
>>> its members.
>>> Using the command svyset i have set the design characteristics of the
>>> survey: clusters, two stages, stratification and probabilistic.
>>> And i have asked stata for the mean of the number of cars in the households.
>>> Is it all right if i multiply the mean of the number of cars in the
>>> households by the expanded number of households to get the total
>>> number of cars of the households?
>>> Or does it depend on wheter the survey was designed to get the total
>>> number of cars of the households?
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>> Laurie
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